Silver Net Stele, 1966

Sculpture Aluminium, Plexiglas

Dimensions: 270 x 55 x 10 cm

In his exploration of the theme of light, Heinz Mack uses a wide variety of media and forms of representation, including sculpture. The spectrum of his sculptures includes the Stele, the earliest group of works within his sculptural oeuvre. On the one hand, the Stele aims at visual transformation through light; on the other hand, it concretises the space and becomes its energetic focal point. "Ideally, a certain space, a certain light, a certain sculpture and a certain viewer come together; this seems self-evident, but it is not," says Heinz Mack.

Born in Lollar, Hesse, in 1931, Heinz Mack attended the State Art Academy in Düsseldorf from 1950-1953. Together with Otto Piene, he founded the internationally influential group ZERO in Düsseldorf in 1957. Heinz Mack is one of the main representatives of Kinetic Art and as such deals with the possibilities of light. He has been awarded numerous prizes for his work and his works are in around 100 public collections all over the world.